Gratitude: Entering His Gates With Thanksgiving | May 28, 2023

As we prepare our hearts for worship this Sunday, let’s spend time in prayerful gratitude. Were you able to make a list this week of grateful memories? (See Monday’s reading for context and explanation).

Gratitude is the first step to building joy into our lives and help us experience a more consistent attachment to God. —Michel Hendricks in The Other Half of Church

Let’s practice:

1. In quiet place, ask God to give you a memory that makes you feel grateful and connected to Him in that moment. Give it a two- to three-word title.
2. Go back and relive the experience for a minute.
3. What did you feel in your body? Maybe “peace” or “lightness” (it doesn’t matter as long as you feel something in your body).
4. What might God be communicating to you through the memory?
5. Compose a list of grateful memories and once a day, spend time with God residing in gratitude.

 Lord, I praise and thank you for …  

Psalm 100 ESV

A Psalm for giving thanks.

100 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
²     Serve the Lord with gladness!
    Come into his presence with singing!

³ Know that the Lord, he is God!
    It is he who made us, and we are his;
    we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

⁴ Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
    and his courts with praise!
    Give thanks to him; bless his name!

⁵ For the Lord is good;
    his steadfast love endures forever,
    and his faithfulness to all generations.